Re: Preferred way to set tempo marks?

[Michael Kiermaier]

Hi Mats,

thanks for your detailed answer.

Unfortunally I am not very happy with the results I get.

I am working on an orchestral piece. Voice-independent things (time 
signatures, special bar lines, repeats, rehersal marks and the tempo marks) 
go to the file global.ly.

In the end I want to have a score (contains all voices) and sheets for every 
instrument (contains only one voices). Up to now I wrote the Violoncello and 
the Contrabass parts.

Up to now I only played with the Contrabass sheet:
When I add \global to the Contrabass on the "Voice" context level, there are 
some nasty collisions (tempo marks with subsequent notes as well as tempo 
marks with subsequent text like "arco").
When I add it on the "Staff" context level using "\override TextScript 
#'padding = #3", there are no collisions, but the result does not look good 
because most of the time there is too much space below the tempo marks. Also, 
the tempo marks are not exactly in the same vertical position: "rit." gets 
set a bit lower than "in tempo", i suspect that the reason is that "in tempo" 
contains a letter (the "p") going below the base line, while "in tempo" 
doesn't.

At the moment, I don't know what to do. Aligning every tempo mark manually 
would be a lot of work for all the instrument sheets.
The "right" thing would be to add \global on the "Voice" context level and to 
tell lilypond to raise every single tempo mark until no collision occures. 
But I don't know if that is possible.

There must be people who had the same problem before. Is there a simple 
solution? 

Thanks, 

~michael

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 08:28, you wrote:
> I usually use normal text scripts:
> c^"a tempo"
> or
> c^\markup{\italic a tempo }
> If you want to keep these annotations separate from the music, so it's
> easy to
> include them in every instrumental part but only on the top stave of the
> score,
> you could attach them to spacing notes. Example:
>
> tempomarks = {s1^\markup{\italic Allegro } | s1_\markup\italic ritardando 
> } music = \relative c'''{g8^"arco" e f d e c e f g f g f e d e d | c1 }
>
> \score{
>   \new Voice<< \music  \tempomarks>>
> }
>
> Note that as long as you keep these annotations in the same Voice context
> as the music, they will not collide with note heads or other text
> scripts that
> occur at the same note.  If you put the annotations in a separate Voice
> context,
> you can get collisions (try to replace "Voice" by "Staff" in the example
> above
> to see what I mean), but on the other hand, you can set the padding
> separately
> to raise them further from the stave, without risking to affect other
> text scripts
> in the actual music. For example, you could do
>
>
>
> tempomarks = {
>   \override TextScript #'padding = #3
>   s1^\markup{\italic Allegro } | s1_\markup\italic ritardando
> }
>
> music = \relative c'''{g8^"arco" e f d e c e f g f g f e d e d | c1 }
>
> \score{
>   \new Staff <<
>     \new Voice \music
>     \new Voice \tempomarks
>
> }
>
>
>    /Mats